Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Re-Testing
I have been drilling around trying to find more information on the newest <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/11/build/nation/92-mad-cow.inc">announcement of <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a>. There is not a lot of information out there but the best I found was <a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2005/06/0206.xml">here</a>. This information comes from a more reliable source than Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns who's just a political appointee…
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I Think He Missed Something
I see <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> is again on his high horse about how <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/10/build/state/50-fire-troops.inc">bad the fire season is going to be</a> and how he wants our National Guard troops back to fight it.<br />n<br />n a. How does he know it's going to be a bad fire season before hand?<br />n b. I…
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Gee, Thanks
One way of not increasing "taxes." Just <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/10/build/state/45-fees.inc">raise fees</a> and hold your head proud that it costs more for Montanans to live here since as Legislatures and Governor, you didn't raise taxes. Just made it more expensive for all of us. Thanks for Nothing.<br />n<br />n<b>The poorest service is repaid with thanks. William Shakespeare</b>
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Is He or Isn’t He, That Is the Question
So, is Governor Brian Schweitzer's campaign fund <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/09/build/state/50-gov-obligation.inc">in debt or not in debt</a>. It appears to be a real good question.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Schweitzer faces between $25,000 and $40,000 in debts to cover a "win bonus" owed to his 2004 campaign media consultant, Struble Eichenbaum of Washington, D.C., and any late bills, he and Eric…
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Excuse Me
<blockquote>Sue DeLoretto-Rabe's 10-year-old son, Kyle, was killed in May 2002 after the ATV he was riding flipped on top of him. His mother said the salesman never mentioned the potential dangers. <br />n<br />n"We were horribly uninformed," said DeLoretto-Rabe, of Turner, Ore.</blockquote><br />n<br />nExcuse me, but if you didn't know this was a possibility you…
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Out of Touch
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/09/build/state/23-cafta.inc">This</a> just shows you how out of touch the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (<acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym>), an arm of the Federal Government, really is.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Right now, (Central American countries) can ship their products to us tariff-free, and I'm talking about beef here," he said. "We…
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It Figures
Well, no surprise <a href="http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/agNews_050608crCOOLdl.xml&catref=ag1001">here</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Shortly after 5:30 Eastern Daylight Time today (06/08/2005) the House voted against the Rehberg amendment, 240 against, 187 for. That leaves the House Agricultural Appropriations Bill unchanged, so <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> funding for <acronym title="Country of Origin…
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Strange Bedfellows, or Are They?
<img width='92' height='220' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/marycareyunclesam1.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' />I see the Republicans are even attracting the <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44649">porn industry</a> to their fund raising events and <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44671">Mary Carey</a>, the porn star (the article states this, I have no personal knowledge), is even hoping to meet the President and has Presidential ambitions herself.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The actress…
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Wow, Deja Vu
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/australia_drought_suicide_dc">Drought casts suicide shadow over rural Australia</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Every day I look outside and I say to myself: 'I get so sick to death of blue sky'," wrote farmer Mick in a recent book, "Tough Times," in which 10 country men talk about their fight with depression and thoughts of suicide.<br />n<br />n"I just…
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Check It Out
I see an interesting announcement over at <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/">mtpolitics.net</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>June 7, 2005<br />nI've tried to get to each of you individually, and I hope I've gotten everyone; but I doubt it. I've been inundated with posts and emails of encouragement; more than I thought possible.<br />n<br />nI'm overwhelmed by the number of kind words…